Youth Information and Development Centre
As part of the Initiative, it is planned to expand the activities of the Youth Information and Development Centre as a unique place where theory meets practice and information meets opportunities.
The Center supports the development of youth information and encourages active citizenship of young people, promoting social responsibility, initiative and entrepreneurship. YIDC's activities are targeted at young people and all people who work with them. As part of the Initiative, YIDC offers:
- free meetings / workshops for young people in the field of communication, active citizenship, career counseling and volunteering in Polish, Ukrainian and English;
- participation in the "Local Animator Academy" (LAA) program, aimed at young people who, through a series of workshops in the field of cultural and social education, increasing their leadership skills, learn animation activities, project management, planning and coordinating social and cultural activities and can carry out their first local community initiative;
- participation in the Youth Activity Festival. During the annual Festival, young people have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the field of preparation and implementation of youth initiatives, as well as obtain information about available forms of volunteering and events as well as educational programs aimed at young people. Participants can talk to experts in these fields and get to know non-governmental organizations and cultural institutions operating in Lublin. Thanks to the use of non-formal education tools, such as an interactive educational game, young people establish new valuable contacts, learn tolerance, dialogue and openness to different views and opinions;
- counseling services, meetings with decision-makers in the field of youth policy, free online and offline workshops on psychosocial competences, competences useful in the labor market and technological tools, for everyone interested, in particular for young people, teachers, educators, psychologists, city council.
